When the Chrysler Building appeared on the Manhattan skyline 90 years ago, it was the most magnificent skyscraper ever built and the tallest in the world, a gleaming testament to American ingenuity ...

On Tuesday, state representatives, trustees, college leadership, construction representatives, and instructors signed the final steel beam for the Transportation Technology/STEM building.

Many renovated buildings replace wood and masonry structural elements with steel. The replacement of heavy wooden roof and floor joists with the lighter steel open-web bar-truss joists is a common ...

Scan the skyline of New York City and it’s almost everywhere you look. Same thing with Chicago and Philadelphia and just about any big city where the buildings poke into the sky. Everyone knows ...

Steel beams supporting the 16th floor of the ill-fated Hard Rock Hotel project in downtown New Orleans were so “grossly underdesigned” that the deadly collapse of the unfinished building “was waiting ...

COLUMBUS COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) - State representatives, trustees, college leadership and construction teams signed the final ...

Thanks to a number of key innovations, steel is playing a greater role in residential high-rises, senior and student housing, and taller mixed-use developments, says architect Jayshree Shah, AIA, ...

DEAR TIM: I’m getting ready to build a large room addition that needs a beam to support the floor joists. I’ve been told that a wood beam will work, but I’ve always seen steel I-beams in other houses.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — If you haven't stopped by or seen the progress at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the steel beams are officially going up, and on Saturday people got a chance to leave their mark.

A structural engineer who helped demolish the partially collapsed Hard Rock Hotel last year says video of the deadly disaster shows the building’s steel failed at the 16th floor of the 18-story ...

The crowd of students and teachers celebrated as a crane hoisted the white steel beam into place, marking a milestone in a ...